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Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose 25 books include "Late Edition: A Love Story"; "When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams"; and "Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen."
(CNN) — No one ever handed her anything.
She never had it made.
Born in Iowa in 1905, an only child, she soon moved with her parents to Montana. As she grew up, she developed a love of reading and an interest in writing and submitted stories to her small-town newspaper. She studied English at college in Montana; she briefly and unhappily married and then divorced. She worked whatever jobs she could find. Her husband had built up numerous debts, including gambling losses; she vowed that she would make good on all of them, and she did.
She sold some stories to the Saturday Evening Post, using her full name as a byline: Dorothy Marie Johnson. She moved to New York, found work at the Gregg Shorthand Co., and eventually became the editor of a women's-interest magazine.
But she was homesick — and she yearned to write a different kind of story. In New York, she would go to the public library to read up on the saga of the West and would go to the movies to watch thrilling films on that same theme.
She missed Montana, and what she most wanted to do was write Westerns.
The authorship of Westerns — tales of cowboys and rustlers and settlers and the rough-hewn world around them — had traditionally been a men's club. Zane Grey, Max Brand, Owen Wister, Luke Short, Jack Schaefer, Louis L'Amour — right up to today, those are the kinds of names most frequently associated with famous Western novels. There didn't seem to be much room for a Dorothy.
She didn't care. She knew she was good enough to succeed.
Here are six words for you:
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."
She wrote it. She changed her byline to Dorothy M. Johnson, feeling that Dorothy Marie sounded too frilly; she wrote the short story that was turned into one of the greatest Western movies ever made. A men's club? John Ford, the director of the 1962 film, and John Wayne, James Stewart and Lee Marvin, the stars, welcomed her into their own club. So did Gary Cooper, who starred in another movie based on one of her stories: 1959's "The Hanging Tree." And Richard Harris, who starred in 1970's "A Man Called Horse."
Last Sunday's column, about the immortality that the highest level of artistry confers upon the artist, centered on the life of Vincent van Gogh, but it also mentioned some authors whose work will long endure. In between the names of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Philip Roth, I placed the name of Dorothy M. Johnson.
A number of you asked who she was.
I'm glad you did. I was kind of hoping you would.
Because, in addition to the wonderful talent she possessed, she is a prime example of how, if you set your heart to it, you have a chance to accomplish just about anything.
She died in 1984, at the age of 78. According to the obituary published in The New York Times, she wrote 17 books, more than 50 short stories and many poems and magazine articles. After she moved back West, she taught college writing courses. The Western Writers of America bestowed upon her their highest honors.
Her writing was so clean, so spare — she knew just how to draw her readers into a tale and keep them hanging on right up to the last word in the last sentence of the last paragraph. Westerns may not be as popular as they once were, but beautiful writing is eternal.
Your public library, if you're lucky, has some Dorothy M. Johnson books; I think you'll find them a treat. KUSM, the public-broadcasting station in Bozeman, Montana, put together an affectionate 27-minute documentary on her life called "Gravel in Her Gut and Spit in Her Eye." If you'd like to see it, here it is.
Because she seemed to enjoy putting unexpected twists into her plots, and because we're talking about "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," I'll end this with a story about the movie I think she might have liked.
During my years of musical travels, I became friends with Gene Pitney, the singer whose hits included "It Hurts to Be in Love," "Twenty-Four Hours from Tulsa," "Town Without Pity" and, of course, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance." Once you hear that song, you never forget it.
Pitney told me that he constantly heard two things from fans. Either they would say:
"I thought your song was one of the best parts of the movie."
"I was watching 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' on TV last night, and they cut your song out of it. They must have had to edit it for time."
Both sets of fans, Pitney said, were wrong.
"I thought I was recording it for the movie," Pitney said.
He was justifiably excited about the prospects. With that cast and that director, the film was destined to be a big hit.
During the recording session, a friend of Pitney's left the studio, went outside for a few minutes and saw a marquee on a movie theater. The person came back, Pitney said, and broke the news to him:
"In the middle of the recording session, I found out that the movie had already come out."
To say that made him a little depressed is an understatement.
"Here's a movie with Jimmy Stewart, Lee Marvin and John Wayne — and the song doesn't get into the movie," he said.
But people continue to think they heard it there. For a long time, Pitney would gently set the questioners straight. By the time he died in 2006, though, he often just smiled and let them believe what they wanted to believe.
He was living up to a line with which every Dorothy M. Johnson fan — and every fan of "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" — is quite familiar:
When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.


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LAPD High Crimes
Written by Stephen Lendman Subject: Police Stateby Stephen Lendman
Michael Ruppert is a former LAPD cop. He knows its dark side well. He witnessed it firsthand.
Its rap sheet includes corruption, abuse of power, complicity with CIA drugs trafficking, unjustified arrests, beatings, murder, perjury, witness tampering, evidence planting, frame-ups, coverups, racism, sadism, and other crimes.
It wants its dirty secrets kept hidden. They're ugly and longstanding. Many examples bear witness. In March 2000, news reports revealed LAPD Rampart Division Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH) unit criminality.
It included unjustified arrests, beatings, drug dealing, witness intimidation, murder, evidence planting, frame-ups and perjury.
An organized criminal subculture exists. Anti-gang officers and supervisors run it. They "celebrate" shootings. They get away with murder.
Earlier LAPD criminality surfaced. Officers shot unarmed gang members, committed perjury, filed false reports, stole drugs from dealers, obstructed justice, beat, framed and robbed people, and were involved in other misconduct.
Two decades ago, Rodney King's beating made headlines. Similar ones go unnoticed. They happen ad nauseam. People of color are most vulnerable. Victims are called perpetrators. LA cops beat, kill and abuse with impunity. It's standard practice.
Ruppert commented on Christopher Dorner. He told Russia Today:
"From my own experience as a Los Angeles police Officer and deep familiarity with both LAPD culture and history, I can say that with regards to Christopher Dorner's allegations regarding internal corruption, favoritism, racism and concealment of excessive force, I believe him 100%."
"My life as an investigative journalist focusing extensively on military, paramilitary and covert operations gives me absolute certainty that this man is an extremely dangerous weapon."
"He is killing here in the United States the way too many US service members have killed routinely and with much less concern about Rules of Engagement overseas for decades."
"I am also certain that his presence on the streets and any
new engagements will put stresses on huge fault lines within law enforcement agencies in Southern California."
"This man needs to be brought in alive and he needs to be heard."
He never got a chance. LAPD cops killed him. Ruppert predicted they would. They wanted him silenced. A SWAT team may have gunned him down.
They surrounded his cabin. Gas was pumped in. LAPD cops made reference to "burners." One voice said "We're going to burn him out. Another shouted "f…king burn this motherf…king house down." One more said "Seven burners were deployed and we have a fire."
Voices were loud enough for CBS affiliate KCAL 9 to broadcast them live on air. Immediately the audio feed was cut.
What happened was reminiscent of immolating Branch Davidian's Mount Carmel Waco ranch compound in 1993.
Eighty-four innocent men, women and children died. They were murdered in cold blood. Attorney General Janet Reno's special counsel whitewashed a federal investigation.
Key facts were suppressed. Wrongdoing was ignored. Atrocities passed under the radar. Washington got away with murder.
So did LAPD cops. They set Dorner's cabin ablaze. Fire department units were ordered not to respond. Dorner was incinerated. He never had a chance. Hours later his charred body was found.
He expected to die. He said so on Facebook. Different versions of his manifesto exist. It denounces dozens of LAPD cops for corruption, racism and violence.
On February 7, two Riverside police officers were shot. One died. Dorner was blamed. A massive manhunt ensued. High-tech surveillance and indiscriminate shootings followed.
Rogue cops don't apologize for wrongdoing. Dorner knew how they operated. He went public explaining it. Doing so marked him for death. LAPD officials wanted him silenced. Extrajudicial killing is policy. Dead men tell no tales.
LA police don't protect and serve. They abuse. They target suspicious suspects and people of color brutally. They use deadly force. Dorner witnessed things firsthand. His experience made him violent.
In 2007, he witnessed white training officer, Sgt. Teresa Evans, kick an unarmed/handcuffed person of color in the stomach and face.
He reported what he saw. He was fired for doing so. An LAPD Board of Rights said he lied.
Truth-telling is hazardous. He said he "saw some of the most vile things humans can inflict on others."
Enemy combatants in LA aren't citizens and suspects. They're rogue cops. LAPD's culture breeds them. The department's been that way for decades.
Brutal cops get promoted to supervisory and command positions. An officer involved in Rodney King's beating became a captain.
Who said crime doesn't pay? It does when rogue cops commit it. Many examples bear witness. On February 7, police opened fire without warning.
They fired dozens of rounds at 71-year old Emma Hernandez and her daughter Margie Carranza. They were delivering newspapers at the time.
They had no connection to Dorner. Cops claimed their vehicle matched his. So do many others.
They were put on administrative leave. Hand slap punishment at most will follow. Hernandez was shot twice in the back. She's in intensive care. Carranza had minor wounds. No one else was hit.
A Torrence police cruiser responded to LAPD's backup call. It rammed a pickup truck indiscriminately. Officers opened fire through its front window.
Fortunately the driver wasn't hit. He ducked and avoided injury. He could have been killed. Fire, ready, aim is official LAPD policy. Anyone close by is vulnerable.
Mike Davis is a political activist, urban theorist, and historian. On February 11, he headlined "Exterminating Angels."
He referenced Dorner's manifesto. It reflects "unendurable depression that descended on (him) after his" LAPD dismissal.
Sneering acronyms taunt his former comrades. Other comments extend "sentimental acknowledgments to friends. Fan notes are included. He "passionate(ly) advocate(d) gun control."
Perhaps he had LAPD cops in mind. Police criminality isn't new. It's rife in US cities and communities. It pervades them like crabgrass infests lawns.
Dorner explained "how a police Explorer Scout" went from LAPD rookie to persona non grata "for being an honest cop." He debunked notions about a kinder, gentler, more diverse LAPD.
He witnessed indiscriminate sadism, racism, corruption, extrajudicial killing, conspiracies, and other high crimes. He raged at injustice. He wanted revenge.
He began by killing a cop's daughter and fiance. Doing so doomed him. "Does anyone cheer Dorner," Davis asked? He's dead.
Stories like his have short shelf lives. Family, friends, people of conscience, and killer cops alone will remember.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at email@example.com.
His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."
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Mobile Police Patlabor OVASynopsisIn the (then) near-future of the turn of the 21st century, the world has developed giant robots known as "Labors" for heavy construction work. Criminals have begun using them to commit crimes; to combat this, as well as prevent Labor-related industrial accidents, police forces around the world have formed special divisions comprised of officers using Patrol Labors, "Patlabors" for short. This is the story of one such unit: the quirky misfit crew of Tokyo Metropolitan Police Special Vehicle Section 2, Division 2. ReviewEven back in the late 80s, early 90s, the mental image of "anime as a genre" was skewed towards flashiness and fan-service, though in those days "fan-service" was more oriented towards action sequences than titillation and the "moe" tropes we see now. Thankfully, there are exceptions to every rule, and Mobile Police Patlabor was one of them. Don't be fooled by the brilliant mechanical designs - this is not a mecha action series in the slightest, but a thoughtful, slow-paced, visually understated series that is interested in character work and rich storytelling, almost to the exclusion of anything else. In this case, that proves not to be a bad thing after all. It's important to understand who the creators are here to get an idea of what we're dealing with: the primary "ideas guy" is producer Mamoru Oshii, who by this point had already brought us the surreal Angel's Egg, and afterwards would come up with the Ghost in the Shell franchise. His penchant for profound, philosophical storywriting is put under the spotlight here, as the characters here are very vocal about the world they're living in and the events they go through - he also builds an optimistic view of a world which, which still obviously flawed, has overcome much of its socioeconomic problems with technical knowhow, which is fairly impressive given that this was made during the depths of Japanese recession after the burst of its economic bubble. Visually, this is quite good for the late 80s; the character designs by veteran (and personal favorite) Akemi Takada (Kimagure Orange Road among many, many others) have an understated appeal, while the mecha designs by Yutaka Izubuchi (later known for RahXephon) feel utilitarian to the point of hyper-realism and even , as if this is the closest thing we're going to get to applying Gundams in real life, and it's really a treat to see Labors in civilian applications, as opposed to seeing them strictly in military applications. Of course, you can't have a character piece without good characters and Patlabor offers these in spades. The headliner here is Miina Tominaga (DNA^2's Karin Aoi) as cheerful redhead Noa Izumi, who is the right degree of genki without ever crossing the line to annoying Pollyanna. My favorite character, though, is feisty, hyper-competitive Japanese-American NYPD transplant Kanuka Clancy, voiced by veteran seiyuu Yo Inoue (Gundam's Sayla Mass) who sadly passed in 2003. There's even a touching and subtlely handled thread involving the Division 2's laid-back, middle-aged boss, Captain Kiichi Goto (Ryusuke Obayashi - Soun Tendo in Ranma 1/2), and his quiet personal and professional relationship with Division 1's conventional-minded Captain Shinobu Nagumo (Yoshiko Sakakibara - Sylia Stingray in Bubblegum Crisis): a respectful, playful rivalry with a strong subcurrent of mutual attraction. All of these are standouts among standouts - each of the members of SV2 is well-developed and hard to put easily into a set stereotype, which lends even more realism to a setting that's already more "realistic" than a fair number of so-called "slice-of-life" series out there. If there's any faults here, it's that Patlabor seems to go out of its way to portray things as plainly and seemingly mundanely as possible, so when you run into, say, a Godzilla pastiche in the third episode, it's played almost completely straight. And yet there are some moments of really great drama, particularly late in the series, that simultaneously anticipate the upcoming movies, but also turn out to be some of the finest material ever to grace a straight-to-video production. In its day, the cerebral realism of Patlabor was a game-changer for the mecha genre (and for its own creators) and it's easy to see why. In some ways, the often light-hearted humor here in the OVAs is an even better balance to the action than the sometimes too-stoic, downright severe nature of the movies, where the SV2 team's quirkiness can be easily missed. When you finally get to the action, it's every bit as skilled as the rest of the production given the age of the production and limitations of the medium at the time - there is just not a sour note to be found here. What's really impressive is that this was actually originally intended as kind of a parody of the concept of "giant robots in the real world", but instead of merely poking fun at the mundanity of using labors as patrol vehicles and construction tools, we instead get a rich, vibrant world setting that is very easy to mistake for our own world. In far too many series, the mecha themselves are the raison-d'etre, the central focus; Patlabor goes the other direction and uses them as a rich hue in the palette of a skilled storytelling team, and while this is clearly a dry-run for the movie and television series that the creators clearly desired to make, it should be said that this work is very truly exemplary and groundbreaking on its own, and deserves our highest commendation. Don't be misled by the mecha on the cover: the Patlabor OVAs are an inventive, profound look at a great team of characters living in an alternate near future that never quite came to pass. If you must have action and fan service, then look elsewhere, but honestly, you'd be missing out on this understated anime classic. — Carlos/Giancarla Ross Recommended Audience: There is some violence involving the Labors, but no sexual themes or fan service whatsoever. Should be fine for teens and above, who would be better equipped to understand the plot and themes within this series anyway. Version(s) Viewed: R1 VHS from Central Park Media, subtitled Review Status: Full (7/7) Mobile Police Patlabor OVA © 1988 Headgear / Bandai Visual |
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Washington Times on Franklin Affair
"A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and US and foreign businessmen with close social ties to Washington's political elite. Reporters for this newspaper examined hundreds of credit-card vouchers, drawn on both corporate and personal cards and made payable to the escort service operated by the homosexual ring."
-- Washington Times article on the Franklin Affair, 6/29/1989 (full text below)
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Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIPs with Reagan, Bush
'Call boys' took midnight tour of White House
Paul M. Rodriguez and George Archibald
The Washington Times
June 29, 1989
A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and US and foreign businessmen with close social ties to Washington's political elite, documents obtained by The Washington Times reveal.
One of the ring's high-profile clients was so well-connected, in fact, that he could arrange a middle-of-the-night tour of the White House for his friends on Sunday, July 3, of last year. Among the six persons on the extraordinary 1 a.m. tour were two male prostitutes.
Federal authorities, including the Secret Service, are investigating criminal aspects of the ring and have told male prostitutes and their homosexual clients that a grand jury will deliberate over the evidence throughout the summer, The Times learned.
Reporters for this newspaper examined hundreds of credit-card vouchers, drawn on both corporate and personal cards and made payable to the escort service operated by the homosexual ring. Many of the vouchers were run through a so-called "sub-merchant" account of the Chambers Funeral Home by a son of the owner, without the company's knowledge.
Among the client names contained in the vouchers - and identified by prostitutes and escort operators - are government officials, locally based US military officers, businessmen, lawyers, bankers, congressional aides and other professionals.
Editors of The Times said the newspaper would print only the names of those found to be in sensitive government posts or positions of influence. "There is no intention of publishing names or facts about the operation merely for titillation," said Wesley Pruden, managing editor of The Times.
The office of US Attorney General Jay B. Stephens, former deputy White House counsel to President Reagan, is coordinating federal aspects of the inquiry but refused to discuss the investigation or grand jury actions.
Several former White House colleagues of Mr. Stephen are listed among clients of the homosexual prostitution ring, according to the credit card records, and those persons have confirmed that the charges were theirs.
Mr. Stephen's office, after first saying it would cooperate with The Times' inquiry, withdrew the offer late yesterday and also declined to say whether Mr. Stephens would recuse himself from the case because of possible conflict of interest.
At least one highly placed Bush administration official and a wealthy businessman who procured homosexual prostitutes from the escort services operated by the ring are cooperating with the investigation, several sources said.
Among clients who charged homosexual prostitutes services on major credit cards over the past 18 months are Charles K. Dutcher, former associate director of presidential personnel in the Reagan administration, and Paul R. Balach, Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole's political personnel liaison to the White House.
In the 1970s, Mr. Dutcher was a congressional aide to former Rep. Robert Bauman, Maryland Republican, who resigned from the House after admitted having engaged in sexual liaisons with teen-age male prostitutes. Mr. Dutcher also worked on the staff of Vice President Dan Quayle when he represented an Indiana district in the House.
A charge also was discovered against the credit card of a former White House staffer who prepared the president's daily news summary in the Reagan administration. Todd A Blodgett said he had not made the charge.
One of the ring's big spending clients is Craig J. Spence, Washington socialite and international trade consultant, according to documents and interviews with operators and prostitutes who say they engaged in sexual activities with Mr. Spence.
Mr. Spence spent upwards of $20,000 a month for male prostitutes who provided sex to him and his friends, said to include military personnel who also acted as his "bodyguards." It was Mr. Spence who arranged the nocturnal tour of the Reagan White House. Repeated attempts to reach Mr. Spence by telephone, fax machine and personal visits to his home, were unsuccessful.
Credit card vouchers confirm that Mr. Spence charged thousands of dollars on American Express and Visa cards, sometimes making $600 charges against his cards several times a day, drawn in behalf of an escort service called Professional Services Inc.
Members of major news organizations also procured escort services from the ring, credit card documents show. These include Stanley Mark Tapscott, who was an assistant managing editor of The Washington Times.
Mr. Tapscott, whose resignation on June 20 was accepted, said he had not procured homosexual escorts or sexual services of any kind. He said in an interview that he had talked to two women he arranged to meet through the escort service as part of an investigation of a dial-a-porn services he had initiated a year earlier when he was editor of the newspaper's Money section. The charges were made against his company American Express card. His editors knew of no such investigation.
Before joining The Times, Mr. Tapscott worked for the Office of Personnel Management in the Reagan administration.
Managers of the escort ring said that "a few women" were used for clients who called with specific requests but that the regular stable was altogether male.
The documents show that a number of clients — lawyers, doctors and business executives — used corporate credit cards to procure escort services and that a number of military officers from the United States and allied countries — including one foreign officer using a "Department of Defence" credit card — charged male escort services.
One former top-level Pentagon officer said that for the past eight years, military and civilian intelligence authorities have been concerned that "a nest of homosexuals" at top levels of the Reagan administration may have been penetrated by Soviet-backed espionage agents posing as male prostitutes, said one former top-level Pentagon official.
A major concern, said the former official with longtime ties to top-ranking military intelligence officers, was that hostile foreign intelligence services were using young male prostitutes to compromise top administration homosexuals, thus making them subject to blackmail.
"We have known for many, many years that there is a department of the KGB [Soviet intelligence] whose job it is to prey on sexual deviants," said retired Lt. Gen. Daniel Graham, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Because "closet" homosexuals in government service can be easily "turned" through blackmail for espionage purposes, Gen. Graham said, "we have always in intelligence tried very hard not to be giving classified information to known homosexuals."
Those interviewed by The Times confirmed that there were blackmail attempts by male prostitutes who wanted money and other favors to protect clients' sexual lives.
The clients interviewed say a Feb. 28 police raid on a house at 6004 34th Place NW was set off by reports of blackmail and possible credit-card fraud complaints and by District hotel operators about prostitution activities.
In the raid, spearheaded by the Washington Field Office of the U.S. Secret Service, authorities found a telephone switchboard operation serving a half-dozen homosexual escort services.
Secret Service agents and District police vice investigators confiscated financial records, as well as ledgers, photos, diaries, telephone records, Rolodexes and client lists of the prostitution network, during the raid and with subsequent subpoenas issued by D.C. Superior Court.
Although the confiscated material was turned over to District police on the scene, witnesses and law enforcement agents say the Secret Service kept one box containing names and other information about high-level government officials who were clients of the male escort business.
District police officials say that, to their knowledge, this is the first time the Secret Service has ever become involved in such a raid in this area.
Initially, the Secret Service denied it was involved in the raid, but after a second raid of the 34th Place house on May 18, the agency acknowledged its involvement in the investigation.
Secret Service spokesman Bob Snow said the agency participated in the search and seizure operation because of its jurisdiction over credit card fraud. "We come into such operations usually at the request of a U.S. attorney … if the fraud involves $10,000 or more … We are not involved in any local prostitution investigation," said Mr. Snow.
Witnesses to the February raid said 12 Secret Service agents in blue parkas entered the house and spent several hours collecting and removing boxes of files.
Federal and District investigators have since interrogated several prostitutes working for the ring, as well as clients of homosexual escort services operating under such names as Jovan, Man-to-Man, Metrodate, Ultimate Models and Ultimate First Class.
In addition to credit-card fraud, the investigation is said to be focused on illegal interstate prostitution, abduction and use of minors for sexual perversion, extortion, larceny and related illicit drug trafficking and use by prostitutes and their clients.
One of the chief operators of Professional Services Inc. and a regular client of the service speculated in separate interviews that the investigation would be restricted because "big names" were involved.
"Henry Vinson [the operator] said a high level official is going to try to block the investigation and may succeed," said Mr. Balach, the labor secretary's liaison to the White House. Mr. Vinson said he believes a highly placed federal official, whom he would not name, is working to derail the investigation, but he would not elaborate.
Authorities have been investigating possible credit card fraud by the ring operators since last fall.
Operators of the ring told The Times that videotapes, audio tapes and still photographs were made of sex acts performed by clients and the call boys, including perverted acts.
Documents show that customers were charged for "videotapes" from the operation.
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It's been such a horrible week, full of unbearably horrible questions. I've never been more grateful that I don't have to think of answers to any of them. This column, from its inception, has been a strictly frivolous enterprise, with any profundity of insight it may generate being entirely accidental. I'm not saying this to be self-deprecating; if the events of the past several days have taught us anything, it's that shallowness has its place—one can't help in moments like these but think of that immortal post-Sept. 11 Onion headline: "A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again."
So, rather than spend the next 900 words or so wading into some unnavigable debate about gun control or mental illness or violent video games or some heartbreaking combination of the three, I will focus here, as is my wont, on the ridiculous, the glib, the hysterical, the inane. Sometimes you can't listen to any more weeping parents, or you don't feel like holding your kids tighter. Sometimes you just need to laugh at something random on the Internet.
So, in that spirit, Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Tattler's top 10 most Tattler things of the year!
10. Anything and everything Les Misérables-related
A movie musical as crowd-pleasing and long in the making as this one, to be released Dec. 25 on what I have hereby decreed "Les Miz-mas," was always going to be a big deal, but nothing could have prepared us for the swelling deluge of material that millions of former drama geeks reliving their childhood have unleashed on the Internet over the past two months. Want to see a baby dressed as Javert? No problem! Various incarnations of nerdy-chic movie stars singing "Confrontation"? Go forth, my son! Anne Hathaway has been burning up the television lately in an array of edgy outfits she looks vaguely uncomfortable in, grinning manically as she gives us all the dirt on everything from her historically accurate starvation diet (utter emaciation being the preferred form of uncompromising vérité for female Hollywood stars) to how seeing her mother play Fantine as a child inspired her to become an actress. Never before have so many put so much effort into something so ultimately inconsequential. It's dizzying, it's ridiculous, and it is glorious. You'll forgive me for using this space to feature my own humble contribution to the genre (feel free to sing on your way to the theater with the Horowitzes this year):
Have yourself a merry old Les Miz-mas
Skip the caroling
This year stand in line to hear the people sing
Have yourself a merry old Les Miz-mas
Storm the barricades
Much like Rent with syphilis instead of AIDS
See us all in the older days
Dark and colder days
In France
Russell Crowe slowly goes insane n'
There's Redmayne in
Tight pants
Dream a dream you'll soon be disabused of
Get the Yuletide blues
At the multiplex you'll know just what to choose
So have yourself a merry old Les Miz-mas, Jews
9. Naked People Going Nuts
From his Royal Highness Prince Harry reviving the age-old debate over Cavaliers vs. Roundheads to the Kony 2012 guy doing nude-tushy thrusts in San Diego to the insane person who ate that guy's face off in the first wave of what we were warned could soon be an unstoppable wave of Travis the Chimp copycat crime, this was the year where people got mad and weren't going to take it anymore—and by "mad" I mean "crazy," and by "it" I mean "underpants." Here's hoping for a more placidly nude 2013, in which the unclothed will peaceably weave lanyards and put on productions of Our Town as though at an adult naturist summer camp. I still look forward to ruminating on whether various British heartthrobs are circumcised in the future, though.
8. Marilyn Hagerty, the Olive Garden Lady
Admit it. The moment that restaurant review of the Olive Garden in North Dakota went viral, you started wondering how it would have sounded coming from the pen of your Jewish bubbe. One thing about the Olive Garden and their bottomless salad/soup bowl: It is impossible to complain about the portions.
7. Smash
Maybe you didn't watch the Most Important Television Program of Our Time 2.0, in which case, I hope you're enjoying your male heterosexual privilege while it lasts. The rest of us were by turns elated and appalled by NBC's bizarrely deracinated backstage saga, set in an alien Broadway world where no one seemed to know what a bar mitzvah was and the only Jew (apart from Manny Azenberg, as "Himself") was Tom, the affable composer played by Christian Borle, which, delightful a performer as he is, is a little like doing a show starring Michael Cera as the only black guy in the NBA.
6. Aly Raisman (and beloved editor-in-chief Alana Newhouse lookalike) winning the Olympic gold medal in floor to "Hava Nagila"
Natalie, you've been warned: There's a new Queen Esther in town.
5. Mitt Romney …
Look, no one is happier than me to see the back of that tastefully graying head of hair. But oh, the memes that man and his strange, strange deployment of the English language generated! Binders full of women. The trees are the right height. The rhythmic recitation of the verses of "America the Beautiful" (otherwise known as Mormon Hip-Hop). Romney wasn't given so much to mangled Bush-style malapropisms as to flights of linguistic weirdness akin to the oddly poetic flavor descriptions on bags of Kasugai gummy candy. A one-man meme factory, if he gets tired of spending time with the grandchildren, he can always go work at Buzzfeed.
4. … and friends.
Again, if the Republican party is doing some serious soul-searching in the wake of electoral disaster, well, good for them I guess. But if once again having a rational opposition party in the democratic process means no more Clint Eastwood ranting at empty chairs on what looks like the stage of the Xenon International Academy graduation show at the Holiday Inn, well, that might be too high a price to pay.
3. Gangnam Style
It's true what they say: Fifty million Elvis fans can't be wrong, and neither can nearly a billion YouTube views. Psy's tour-de-force of formfitting outfits, horsey dance moves, and sexy ladies holding the yoga cow pose is both a glorious zany distillation of our entire, absurdity-drenched, randomly brilliant idea-blender of the best of Internet culture and, if the roomful of Jewish kids singing along in fluent Korean at my cousin's recent bar mitzvah is any indication, the real harbinger of a globalized world in which, as Oprah says, we are more alike than we are different. Because we all love that frigging video.
2. This column, and all of you!
It's true! I may not be writing about serious things all the time, but I do take the writing seriously, and it has been an honor and a privilege to have done so for Tablet magazine over the past year. Thank you all for your support and occasional VITRIOLIC SPEWING BORDERING ON HATE CRIMES! I love you all! Though not as much as I love …
1. The anti-Semitic Elmo that got arrested in Times Square this year
This story was so utterly amazing, and so in tune with my personal interests, that I wasn't sure at first if I had dreamed it. (And this was only the first piece of tsuris for Elmo this year, but I'm not even going to go there, since that was my least-favorite story.) A maniac named Adam Sandler reciting what sounded like passages from Mein Kampf while dressed as everyone's favorite red furry monster. Anti-Semitism, Muppets, a shady past in Cambodian rape porn, the unforgettable image of a cartoon character in handcuffs: It had everything. Congratulations, Other Adam Sandler: You are Tattler's Man of the Year. May your memory be a blessing, wherever the hell you are.
Merry Les Miz-mas everyone, and here's to 2013!
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Rachel Shukert, a Tablet Magazine columnist on pop culture, is the author of the memoirs Have You No Shame? and Everything Is Going To Be Great. Starstruck, the first in a series of three novels, is new from Random House. Her Twitter feed is @rachelshukert.
Rachel Shukert is the author of the memoirs Have You No Shame? and Everything Is Going To Be Great,and the novel Starstruck. She is the creator of the Netflix show The Baby-Sitters Club, and a writer on such series as GLOW and Supergirl. Her Twitter feed is @rachelshukert.


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"You should sign up for this," my sister said, showing me an article about a bookstore that doubles as a matchmaking service. At the Brooklyn indie, lovelorn bookworms choose their prospective romantic interests based on their list of favorite authors pinned to a cork board. The article went on to point out that women never wrote down Jack Kerouac as one of their coveted authors.
My decade-long love affair with the poets and writers of the Beat Generation was about to pay off. As the only woman who adored Kerouac, I would be the vixen of the literary matchmaking board.
Now, I'll be the first to admit I'm a girly girl. My regular weekend activity includes clothes shopping, I feel naked without nail polish on, and my favorite color is pink. In fact, it was while reading the fashion magazine Seventeen my senior year of high school that I stumbled upon a mention of Ann Charters's The Portable Beat Reader and quickly became obsessed with all things Beat related. After reading Jack Kerouac's road-trip novel On the Road, it only seemed natural to pack my bags and move across the country for college. As Kerouac wrote, "I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility."
While attending Scripps, a women's college in Southern California, my interest in Beat literature grew as I went on a San Francisco pilgrimage to poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, infamous for its involvement in the obscenity trial over Allen Ginsberg's Howl. When I returned, diploma in hand, to the East Coast, I attended talks by Beat writers at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York City. I tucked Gregory Corso's poem "Marriage," in which he asks "Should I get married? Should I be good?" into my heart. That would be the poem I want read at my wedding, I thought. When I read On the Road, I connected to Kerouac's alter ego, Sal Paradise, shambling after friends, being nostalgic for events even as they're happening, seeing beauty in the mundane, and hitting the road in his eternal quest for meaning — topics I thought both men and women could relate to.
Until my sister showed me the matchmaking article, it had never occurred to me that the author of On the Road could be a cement divider on Lover's Lane. I had met guys who'd been inspired by Kerouac. They thrilled at the freedom of stuffing beef jerky in a backpack, wearing the same band t-shirt for days, and hitting the road with no plan but more life experience. It's true I didn't personally know any women who admired Kerouac, but I figured he just wasn't on their radar since fifty years had passed since On the Road was published. There were plenty of women I knew through books who had loved Kerouac — women like Edie Parker-Kerouac, Joyce Johnson, and Helen Weaver, who wrote memoirs about their romances with Kerouac. Overcome with his prose prowess as I was, it was easy to overlook the parts that weren't exactly rom-com material — the failed marriages, the refusal to acknowledge his own daughter, the fact that he lived with his mother until the day he died — particularly since I didn't read his novels as love stories but as poetic travelogues.
Then I encountered a woman who openly disdained Kerouac — and all that he seemed to represent. It occurred to me that women saw him as a misogynist vagabond, the bad boy who had left their broken hearts in a trail of exhaust fumes. He didn't like being tied down by responsibilities, or women. Perhaps those female readers who actually did like his writing feared adding Kerouac to their list of favorite authors for a literary matchmaking board because they didn't want to end up with someone like him: a penniless drifter, a dreamer, an alcoholic.
If I am to be terribly stereotypical, I'd say the literary crush I hear most women talk about is Mr. Darcy, the cute fixer-upper worth the effort because of his money and social standing. Sure, maybe he's a bit aloof at first, but in the end Mr. Darcy'll put a ring on it. Of course, dating-savvy women wouldn't necessarily include Jane Austen as their favorite author for the literary matchmaking board: they're smart enough to know they might scare off potential male suitors if they implied they enjoy staying in on a Friday night to watch BBC films on television, possibly having to get out the smelling salts during the "pond scene" in Pride and Prejudice.
Instead, women might disclose preferences for less polarizing authors. Female authors would be perfectly acceptable to list, so long as they're "serious" or witty authors like Toni Morrison, Tina Fey, and Jennifer Egan — and not authors whose books feature shopping bags, pearl necklaces, or candy hearts on the covers. Words like "wedding" and "feminist" probably shouldn't be anywhere in the title either. There's nothing wrong with reading these books — in fact, wanting to get married and being treated as equal are both positive desires — it's just that, well, if on your first date you wouldn't bring up the number of kids you want to have (unless, of course, you're on The Bachelorette), then you also would probably subtly edit your reading tastes when you know you're being judged by them. Like with clothing, it's best to leave a little mystery.
Men's disinterest in Austen and other female authors has, of course, been its own cause for consideration. Last year, in an article entitled "Men Need Only Read Books by Other Men, Esquire Post Suggests," The Atlantic Wire rightly took issue with the fact that only one female author was listed in Esquire's "75 Books Men Should Read." However, guess which male author The Atlantic Wire specifically mentions, as if he is the driving force behind men's exclusion of female writers: "hard-living, macho writers like…Jack Kerouac." Interesting. I would have called him a life-affirming, sensitive author. It was Kerouac, after all, who wrote, "Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk—real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious."
In the past few years, culture critics have speculated that in general men read less than women and that specifically they don't read much fiction — Kerouac presumably excluded. It appears, then, that men and women read quite differently. If men are more likely to read nonfiction, it seems likely that men are reading to obtain information. In contrast, women maybe read fiction for the entertainment of a character-driven story. And this is where it gets interesting. Every so often, social debates arise whether women are more "sympathetic" than men, "sympathetic" being defined by dictionary.com as "acting or affected by, of the nature of, or pertaining to a special affinity or mutual relationship." If it is true that women are more sympathetic, either because of their genetic makeup or because they have been conditioned to be so, then perhaps women read relationally, placing themselves within the story. It would be natural then for female readers to cast themselves as the female characters instead of the male characters. In a work written by a man, the female character is usually going to be the subject of the male gaze. If that work happens to be On the Road, you're going to end up with women like Marylou and Camille, flat characters being two-timed by hyperactive car-thief Dean Moriarty. It's no wonder then that many women, even when they put his personal lives aside, don't relate to Kerouac's writing.
I don't believe all women — or all men — think and act and read the same way, though. I never automatically put myself in the stilettos of the female character in a book. I read On the Road through the eyes of the eager narrator, Sal Paradise. Even if I didn't agree with his every action, I desired Kerouac's joie de vivre.
More than that, I was also the narrator of my own story, my own life. After reading Kerouac, I became the one dashing out the door for my next adventure. If I had a week off of work and wanted to take a vacation, I packed my bags and hopped on a bus or a plane. I took a Greyhound across the United States. I saw Stonehenge. I visited shrines in Kyoto. And I did it by myself, sometimes couch-surfing with friends who lived near my chosen destination before venturing off on my own to a hostel.
I was never looking for someone to jumpstart my story, to open the car door for me, to give me permission to do something. It didn't occur to me that I needed a boyfriend or even a friend to accompany me to art galleries or readings or to make my life full. I wasn't looking for my Jack Kerouac. I was Jack Kerouac. And so I never signed up for the matchmaking board. I didn't believe in lonely nights. I was a reader. If I wanted company, all I had to do was pick up a book — or my car keys.
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From March 6-23, the Biennial extends to Park Avenue Armory
The 2008 Biennial, the seventy-fourth in the series of Whitney Annual and Biennial exhibitions held since 1932, presents eighty-one artists working at a time when art production is above all characterized by heterogeneity and dispersal. However, within the enormously differentiated field that we (perhaps absurdly) continue to yoke under the term "contemporary art," certain prevalent modes of working and thematic concerns are particularly germane to the moment.
Many of the projects presented in the exhibition explore fluid communication structures and systems of exchange that index larger social, political, and economic contexts, often aiming to invert the more object-oriented operations of the art market. Recurring concerns involve a nuanced investigation of social, domestic, and public space and its translation into form—primarily sculptural, but also photographic and cinematic. Many artists reconcile rigorous formal and conceptual underpinnings with personal narratives or historical references. While numerous works demonstrate an explicit or implicit engagement with art history, particularly the legacy of modernism, as well as a pronounced interest in questioning the staging and display of art, others chart the topography and architecture of the decentralized American city and take inspiration from postindustrial landscapes and urban decay. Using humble or austere materials or employing calculated messiness or modes of deconstruction, they present works distinguished by their poetic sensibility as they discover pockets of beauty in sometimes unexpected places.
There is an evident trend toward creating work of an ephemeral, event-based character, in the form of music and other performance, movement workshops, radio broadcasts, publishing projects, community-based activities, film screenings, culinary gatherings, or lectures. Such projects do not stand in opposition to institutions; rather, considering each of these multiple platforms equally important, artists show objects in the museum or gallery even as they seek ways to complicate and transcend its parameters. In this spirit, from March 6–23 the 2008 Biennial continues at Park Avenue Armory with an extensive program of events and performances.
Across media, much work in this year's Biennial concerns politics although its mode of address is often oblique or allegorical. Persistence, belief, and a desire to locate meaning threads through these many modes and activities rooted in what feels like a transitional moment of history. Rather than positing a definitive answer or approach, these artists exhibit instead a passion for the search, positioned in the immediate reality of our uncertain sociopolitical times.
Register Now for Rita Ackermann and Agathe Snow's Abat-Jour
Sunday, March 23 7 pm
Park Avenue Armory
Ackermann and Snow host a gypsy-themed feast, in
which food, drink, and decoration—as well as the guests
themselves—become materials in the work of art. A play
on the French word for lampshade, Abat-Jour refers
to bajour, a traditional gypsy confidence game. Using
bartering and chance as a central themes, Ackermann
and Snow explore issues related to gender, community,
and celebration. At 9:30 pm all visitors are welcome
to dance in the dinner hall. Courtesy Dom
Perignon, Peres Projects, and Randy Slifka. To register for Agathe Snow's Abat-Jour, email email@example.com
Space is limited.
Rashawn Griffin, Untitled, (Installation view at Whitney Museum of American Art, 2008) 2006. Pockets, blanket, fabric, wool, foam, artificial flower, cotton, and wood, 84 _ x 82 x 10 _ in. (215.3 x 208.3 x 26 cm). Private collection. Courtesy the artist. Photograph by Kat Howard.


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Alien Disclosure From
An Astronaut
By Clark C. McClelland
former ScO, Space Shuttle Fleet
Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Prior to the fateful launch of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28, 1986, I had the honor and pleasure of sharing conversations with several members of that crew.
During one of many pre-mission preps for the Challenger mission, I came upon Lt. Col. Ellison Onizuka in the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at launch complex 39. I had an assignment to assess some problems at the Launch Control Center (LCC) and needed to access the main drawing files. A file operator was there and I went to her for assistance. Ellison walked in on our conversation and we exchanged greetings. Jokingly, I asked him if he had important business with her, and he said "yes, Clark" with a big smile. I told her to help Lt. Colonel Ellison first, and I would wait. She opened a plastic bag which had a packet of goodies for this very important customer. Ellison "loved" those chocolate-peanut butter brownies that she baked for him when he was at KSC on training assignments.
Many astronauts at the KSC knew of my interest in the study of possible ET intelligence, and my association with Major Donald Keyhoe, Dick Hall and the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP since 1958), and the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), at Cape Canaveral and KSC.
Another evening while off-site, I once again accidentally came upon Ellison. He asked if I could give him an opinion regarding a topic that was sparking his curiosity. Ellison had a great interest in ET life and asked me my belief concerning aliens, and if I believed they have been here on earth? His question caught me by surprise.
As we walked slowly towards our destinations, I briefly explained what I had learned since 1947, the initial year I entered my UFO research. I briefly related what I knew regarding the Roswell case and that I had become more aware of it many years later at the Cape through several discussions with ABMA (Army Ballistic Missile Agency) personnel who were at White Sands Proving Grounds near Roswell, New Mexico in July, 1947. These men had worked directly with Dr. Wernher von Braun and his team of German Scientists who were at that base at that time. Onizuka said he was aware of that case.
I then told him my belief that life does exist among the stars and that it has visited earth throughout human history. He smiled in agreement. I thought to myself, what else does he know? Soon it became very clear.
Onizuka asked me if my surname had any connection with McClellan Air Force Base in California? I said not as far as I was aware. I asked him why? Ellison said he had a surprising experience along with other USAF aerospace flight engineers and pilots while on military training duty at McClellan AFB, about eight or nine years prior to his astronaut training.
He and this group were at this base for specialized training when they were directed to report to a viewing room. As they were seated, the room darkened and a movie began without the usual official introduction by a USAF officer.
They were all startled when a view of a facility similar to a medical examination room appeared on the screen and small bodies were observed lying on slabs. He heard several excited comments by the other officers seated near him. The small, strange looking creatures were humanoid in shape, and appeared similar to those described by alleged witnesses at the well-known Roswell site in the Southwest USA in 1947. They all had large heads, large eyes, slight torsos, arms, and legs. They did not appear to be of earthly origin.
Ellison then said, " Clark, my God, these highly trained officers and I were shocked by what we saw. We were not made privy to what we would see until it happened. We were all caught off guard. Perhaps it was a test of our psyche to determine our overall reaction. Well, we were all caught by surprise ".
Needless to say, I was also caught off guard hearing this revelation from a highly intelligent USAF officer and NASA astronaut. One who flew his initial space mission 51-C in the space shuttle Discovery a highly classified Department of Defense (DoD) mission under top secret conditions. It made me wonder what else Ellison knew, or perhaps had seen, during his first shuttle mission and USAF career?
I said "that's amazing, Ellison! Were all of you given any opportunity to question what you saw?" He said, "No! We were then asked to exit the room and continued our scheduled technical activities as if nothing special had occurred. In my opinion, I have considered the possibility that the group was evaluated for individual reactions to what they saw. Perhaps it was a planned USAF psychological test for military reasons. Who knows, NASA may have evaluated it in my selection as an astronaut in 1978. You know, what would my reaction be if I actually saw an alien being"?
We arrived at our separate building destinations and briefly discussed his approaching second space mission in Challenger 51-L. He said he was anticipating a successful flight with Judy Resnik, Christa McAuliffe, and crew. I asked if we could discuss this topic again; and he agreed.
Unknown to us both, this would be the last time we would speak. He, Judy, Christa and the other crew members would be making their final mission on January 28, 1986. I was at the Kennedy Space Center and watched in disbelief as they and space shuttle Challenger fell into the Atlantic Ocean.
Upon leaving KSC for the night after being on duty for about 15 hours, I was driving home to my Port St. John Apartment when the disaster finally caught up with my emotions. I pulled to the side of the main NASA causeway crossing the Indian River and sobbed my eyes out for about ten minutes. God, how horrible it was, and still is to this day, in my memory.
God bless you Judy Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Gregory Jarvis and Ronald McNair.
Thank you, God, for the honor of knowing all of them. And, please, if you would - - - make sure Ellison gets those chocolate-peanut butter brownies up there in heaven.
For more of my inside Kennedy Space Center eyewitness disclosures, open Stargate Chronicles at www.stargate-chronicles.com
- Mr. McClelland's site no longer comes up. It was working fine when this story was posted yesterday. The link now leads to a different site. We have no idea what the problem might be.
From a visitor --
I just contacted AlternateRealities.org about the problem with the McClelland website. My best guess is that this was an accidental DNS 'hijacking', and they say they've corrected the problem. Right now, I just get a custom error page, but I think after the DNS changes have a chance to propagate, all will be well.
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Target Mocks, Not Helps, Its Data Breach Victims
The only thing consumers did wrong is to shop at Target. Why are they being blamed for the retailer's security failings?
January 22, 2014
At face value, Target's $5 million contribution to organizations that educate consumers on computer safety makes sense. There was a computer compromise -- one that compromised weak computer security -- so Target should look to strengthen it. Unfortunately, the error pointed out a weakness in Target's security efforts, not those of its customers. The only thing that consumers did wrong is shop at Target.
If Target wanted to help its victims, it would have contributed $5 million to resources that help victims of the crimes that resulted from Target's own security failures. For example, the funds would be much more effective in the hands of the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit that provides counseling to victims of identity theft, which Target's customers have become.
Instead, Target mocks and marginalizes its victims by sending a message that everyone -- consumers and retailers -- has equal responsibility when it comes to data breaches. To a limited extent, that is true, but the donation is a blatant attempt by Target to repair its image without taking responsibility for its security failings.
Worse, the action implies that, if customers (the victims of the identity theft) had only engaged in better security practices, they would not have been attacked in the first place. If Target were truly interested in repairing its image, it would reframe the discussion and take responsibility for the fact that its own internal weaknesses compromised user data.
More class, less action
Some make the case that it's not wrong for Target to make a large donation to some very good organizations, but the truth is that Target knows that it will likely have to donate money to some nonprofit as part of a class action settlement when the dust settles. If it pays that money now, while it is in the middle of a public relations nightmare, there's really no down side.
The reality of class actions is that consumers rarely benefit from them. Yes, it sounds good that Target will ultimately pay tens of millions of dollars in settlement fees. But what I've discovered, after researching many such lawsuits, is that most consumers walk away with nothing tangible. Let's assume, for example, that Target agrees to pay $30 million for consumers to obtain a year of free credit monitoring. Many people already have this service, and few take advantage of it. So Target will likely end up paying less than $5 million of that sum.
Target will also probably give some discount coupons or credit vouchers that let customers believe they will receive $50 million in payouts. These payouts will require consumers to go through extensive measures to prove they suffered a loss. Then they will be required to go into and spend more money at Target. Assuming consumers actually take advantage of the payouts, that spending could represent a net gain for Target. Then there is the $5 million donation, which is a drop in Target's marketing budget. Of course, the big money -- $10-$20 million or so -- will probably go to the attorneys supposedly representing the class in the action
Well-meaning but irrelevant nonprofits help Target mock its victims while attorneys get rich filing paperwork. Target needs to stop implying that its victims are to blame. It needs to start providing real help that repairs the real damage it caused through its failure to provide adequate security for its customers' data.
Ira Winkler is co-founder and president of Secure Mentem Inc. and president of the Internet Security Advisors Group. Described as a modern day James Bond, he began his career at the National Security Agency and is recognized as an expert in Internet security and cybercrime.
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Clinton: Russia and China will 'pay price' for supporting Assad
Russia rejects in the strongest possible terms allegations that it supports President Assad in the Syrian conflict. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Moscow and Beijing must 'pay a price' for backing Assad.
"I do not believe that Russia and China are paying any price at all – nothing at all – for standing up on behalf of the Assad regime. The only way that will change is if every nation represented here directly and urgently makes it clear that Russia and China will pay a price," Clinton warned.Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said the west is operating within a friend-or-foe framework that he called outmoded.
"We categorically reject that such a question would even be posed regarding the current situation in Syria and Russia's 'backing' of President Bashar Assad. This is not a question of supporting certain political figures or leaders. This is a question of managing a crisis situation in the country within a normal political framework," Ryabkov said."Unfortunately, we're unable to get a basic understanding from our western partners. The west is still appealing to "friend-or-foe" terms. We considered such terminology to be a thing of the past," Ryabkov explained.Russia and China once again opted not to attend the "Friends of Syria" meeting. Neither Moscow nor Beijing believe the meeting in the French capital will be helpful in uniting the Syrian opposition "on a constructive basis"."We have frankly laid out the reasons why we have restrained from joining the mechanism, the very name of which has a contradiction between the word and the deed," Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier this week.The US Secretary of State further criticized Russia for the maintenance of Syria's Soviet-made helicopters. Two weeks ago Hillary Clinton lashed out at Russia for repairing three Syrian helicopters, saying their presence "will escalate the conflict quite dramatically."The Russian Foreign Ministry swiftly refuted the allegations. "In 2008 there was a contract to repair them. They are still to be assembled after delivery'', Lavrov said. ''That entire process will take at least three months. So to speak about something we have just sold to Syria, which is then to be used in action, is not true at all," he added.Meanwhile, Kofi Annan called on the West and Russia to lay aside their differences and work towards a sooner end to the Syrian bloodshed, which according to the UN latest estimates, has taken some 15,000 lives."They [the West] accuse the Russians of arming the [Syrian] government. The Russians accuse them of arming the opposition and flooding the place with weapons. This is instead of coming together to see what can be done," Annan told the Guardian on Friday.
US to seek another UN Security Council resolution
The Paris conference wrapped up with a six-point resolution, affirming that more definitive UN Security Council action is required to resolve the 16-month conflict in Syria. Hillary Clinton said the lack of compliance with Annan's peace plan or obstruction to the transition should be punished with further sanctions. "We should go back and ask for a resolution in the Security Council that imposes real and immediate consequences for non-compliance, including sanctions," ranging from economic measures to military force, she said.Two previous UNSC resolutions have been vetoed by China and Russia.Friends of Syria's meeting also concluded with an agreement that the Syrian opposition should receive broader support, while those "who carry out and support repression" must face tougher and wider sanctions. In the meeting, French President Francois Hollande demanded Assad step down. The Syrian opposition also called for humanitarian corridors and a no-fly zone to be implemented.The Friends of Syria gathering comes just a week after a UN-led summit in Geneva where the international community endeavored to reach a consensus on the conflict. They agreed to get behind UN envoy Kofi Annan's plan for a transition government in Syria. However, Russia said that western powers were purposely distorting the terms of the agreement to push for the removal of Assad. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton claimed that the agreement said Assad must leave office, whereas Moscow claims that the original accord made no allusion to the removal of the Syrian president.


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No-one needs to have a barren plug-in folder these days - not when there are so many excellent freebies on offer.
This week's selection, for example, features instruments for producing synth, organ and decidedly 'out there' sounds, and even an effect that emulates a variety of guitar pickup types and body materials.
Something, we think, for everyone, so let's stop shilly-shallying and dive in…
Ohm Force Cohmpost
Platform/format: PC, Mac/VST, AU Download
A typically nutty freebie from the chaps at Ohm Force, Cohmpost has a GUI that looks like it was designed on the back of a napkin. We'll leave you to work out what it does, but with an interface that features such labels as British beef, Lorry drivers and Les onions, you'll gather that it's not the most serious of production tools.
The Lower Rhythm Equivibe
Platform/format: PC/VST Download
If you're looking for an effect that will make your electric pianos, strings and pads shimmer, this could be it. It marries EQ and vibrato - first the input is split into nine bands, then each band is individually modulated by its own dedicated oscillator, which is then modulated by a further oscillator.
Tekky Synths CrAzYx
Platform/format: PC/VST Download
Operating as a VSTi or standalone, this non-standard tool is designed, predictably enough, to make your audio sound a little 'crazy'. It features a sample player, four FX and three random buttons. If your music is sounding a little too conventional, give it a spin.
AcmeBarGig RedShift Pickup Replacer
Platform/format: PC/VST Download
This is an interesting one - a plug-in that promises to simulate loads of different types of pickup, giving you lots of tonal versatility from just one guitar. That's not the end of the story, though, as Pickup Replacer can also change the body material of your guitar. You can choose from a variety of woods, pyrex, granite and, slightly disturbingly, human tissue.
Alterex ViCON (Modified)
Platform/format: PC/VST Download
Our very first free music software round-up featured a synth called ViCON, and now developer Alterex has released a modified version. This adds various features to the spec sheet, including cross-modulation, pulse width modulation and distortion/bitcrusher effects. Oh, and there also seem to be some new smiley faces on the GUI.
Iliadis EfthimiaSM Organ
Platform/format: PC/VST Download
EfthimiaSM models a "Single Manual Hammond Clone Organ". It features nine drawbars and Percussion, Key Click and Vibrato/Chorus sections. Iliadis has also announced that its VH-2 organ plug-in is now free, too


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Episode #19 Nikos Wine Bar Spokane
When wine in Spokane meant a handful of wineries and a small selection at the local grocery store, Niko's owner Laith Elaimy anticipated a trend and took a chance by hiring Pauline Riley, his wine representative from a local distributor, to run his wine menu. The seemingly odd pairing of Niko's Greek Restaurant and its mediterranean menu and the Niko's Wine Bar has resulted in one of Spokane's finest places to enjoy not only a great dinner but a huge variety of wine.
"Wine is food for the soul," says Pauline, "we want to provide a place to bring people to good conversation and good wine." Niko's not only provides a great dinner menu and wine selection but is a premier location for VIP dining rooms, valet parking, and catering; all of this in the heart of downtown Spokane on Post and Riverside (just 2 blocks from Riverpark Square).
Pauline is one of the go to wine people in Spokane. She is a trusted expert in the community. Her years of experience have made Niko's wine bar the place to enjoy a good glass of wine, a fun wine flight, or buy that special bottle retail for the last 12 1/2 years.
The wine bar, an extension of the restaurant, is a quaint nicely decorated room to enjoy wine. Pauline prepares a new wine tour sheet every few weeks that features between 40-50 wines by the glass, chosen from their 1100 bottle cellar. The menu favorites are the various wine flights where you can experience regional, international, varietal or producer flights. Pauline even likes to feature a "anything but Sideways flight" where patrons get all Merlot. My favorite is the blind white or red flight where Pauline brings you a random selection. After the tasting she brings out the bottles challenging you to pair the wine you drank with the correct bottle. It is a fun and challenging tasting.
When I asked Pauline what she wants people to experience at the wine bar, she said, "I want people to embrace new wine in an environment that is conducive to shared experiences. I want to serve the best selection of wine in a beautiful location using quality stemware. Life is too short to drink the same wine twice." Niko's has been voted by local Spokane Inlander readers as the region's Best Wine Bar and Spokane's Best Wine Selection for ten straight years!
Whether you are a wine expert, new to wine or, somewhere in between (like me), Niko's has developed a fantastic reputation as the spot for wine in Spokane. With so much wine available, Pauline sees her job to be your wine professional helping you select the best wine for your needs. "You have a Real Estate professional or a finance professional, why not a wine professional."
The NectarView:
- The Stats: Niko's Wine Bar is open Sun – Wed 4pm – 10pm and Thur – Sat 4pm – 11pm. Open Friday for lunch from 11-3 (all entrée's $10)
- The Social: www.nikosspokane.com 509.624.7444
- The Streets: 725 W. Riverside (Riverside and Post)
2010 represents Niko's 25 years in business. To celebrate the longevity Niko's is offering a $25 gift card to use on a return visit when you enjoy dinner during 2010. You heard it here first. Tell them DrinkNectar sent you.
NEW UPDATE 1/29/10 – Talked to Pauline last night and she has started a fantastic Happy Hour $2 Glass of Wine (1 red, 1 white), $2 off any glass, $2 off any flight and $2 beer. Happy Hour is 4-6pm and 9-close Monday – Friday! Tell them Josh @ DrinkNectar sent you!
11 comments on "Episode #19 Nikos Wine Bar Spokane"
Randy Watson Looks like my kinda place!
You're so lucky to have so many cool places like this around you!
Maybe we can meet up some time for a bottle!
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Seattle Wine Gal This is such an amazing way to showcase great places Josh. I am impressed and hope they realize how lucky they are to get this sort of attention from DrinkNectar! Very cool. -Seattle Wine Gal (@seattlewinegal)
drinknectar Thanks, SeattleWineGal! If you and TheWineWhore ever decide to grace Spokane with your presence, I'll take you guys out!
Darren I enjoy the wine flights at Nikos but the service seems very rushed these days. Nice blog! Fun to see some Spokane area love. My rec for the best wine experience in the area is Beverly's at the C'D Alene Resort. Top notch service and an experience you'll never forget. cheers
Darren Josh,
Ask for Eric at Bevs, he is a great guy. I would love to see more wine bars in Spokane (Left Bank has been a nice addition). Nice job with the blog, keep it up!
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Pauline Riley Josh – Thanks for including Niko's on your blog – it helps motivate me to keep doing what I'm doing and it helped pull me out of my Niko bubble – it's good to get into the virtual world sometimes. Also, thanks for the second visit where I enjoyed watching you and your friend in action – thanks for going along with my suggestions.
I'm adding to the overall Niko's experience by making a few hours in the day even more affordable — I call it the Happiest Hours
$2 Glasses of Wine
$2 Bottled Beers (Except Chimay)
$2 Off Any glass of Wine
$2 Off Any "Wine Tour"
Monday – Friday 4-6 p.m. and again from 9:00 to close
Cheers to all and to all a good flight 😉


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Kyrie Irving leads Cavaliers past new-look Nets
CLEVELAND -- Expectations were already high for the Cavaliers this season. Once Andrew Bynum stripped off his warm-ups and stepped on the floor, they rose to another level.
Cleveland could contend again.
Anderson Varejao's basket with 28 seconds left -- off an assist from Kyrie Irving -- sent the Cavs to a 98-94 win on Wednesday night over the remodeled Brooklyn Nets in coach Mike Brown's first game back with Cleveland.
But it was the return of Bynum, the massive 7-foot center, after a 17-month layoff that gave the Cavs a boost that could propel them for months.
Bynum, who didn't play a single second for Philadelphia last season because of knee injuries, played in his first NBA game since May 21, 2012. Bynum only played eight minutes, but it was long enough for the Cavs to get a glimpse of the team they could be.
"It's a big body out there blocking shots," Cavs guard Dion Waiters said. "He changed the game. He changed the momentum. I'm just glad he's back out there doing what he loves to do."
Varejao's jumper gave the Cavs a 93-91 lead, and Irving, who finished with 15 points, 9 assists and 7 rebounds, made four free throws in the final 14 seconds to help Cleveland put it away.
Brook Lopez scored 21 and Paul Pierce scored 17 in his first game for the Nets, who were without coach Jason Kidd as he serves a two-game suspension for a driving-under-the-influence conviction. Kevin Garnett, another of Brooklyn's new pieces, had 10 rebounds. But the Nets, who made a blockbuster trade last summer and are over $100 million in payroll as they seek a title, didn't make enough plays down the stretch and dropped their long-awaited opener.
"Everyone has to be patient," Garnett said. "It's not just because you assemble guys and things are going to just voila. We're not a perfect team by far, but we are a hard working team. We're a team with no excuses."
Tristan Thompson led the Cavs with 18 points and guard Jarrett Jack scored 12 -- all in the first half when Irving got into foul trouble.
After Irving made two free throws with 5.9 seconds to go, Pierce made a 3-pointer to pull the Nets within 97-94. But Varejao dropped a foul shot to give Brown his first win in his second stint with Cleveland. Brown was fired following the 2010 season, but he's back and his return should help the Cavaliers put three miserable seasons behind them.
Of course, having Irving helps, too.
The All-Star guard was in early foul trouble and played just 11 minutes in the first half. But he was on the floor when it mattered most, and after dribbling through traffic for several seconds with the score tied at 91-91, he alertly found Varejao near the free-throw line for his critical jumper.
Bynum's appearance was a mild surprise. He had been making strides in practice as he recovers knee surgeries, but only got medical clearance to play a few hours before the game. The two-time All-Star, who signed a two-year, $24 million free agent contract with Cleveland in July, came off the bench with 3:40 left in the first quarter.
He checked in to a rousing ovation from Cleveland fans, many of whom wondered if they would ever see him play because of his well-chronicled knee issues. But the big man moved without any limitations and finished with three points, three rebounds, two assists and one block in eight minutes.
"It was kind of like riding a bike," he said. "I don't think I've accomplished anything yet."
The Nets believe they can make a title run this year, but it could take some time for their talented lineup to gel.
Deron Williams played just 22 minutes as he continues to recover from a sprained ankle, and Brooklyn missed him being on the floor in the final minutes.
"Obviously it hurts but we have to go back and look at the reason why we lost this game," Pierce said. "Throughout the course of the season we have to understand it's always going to be about the little things. To be a championship team, you have to clean those things up."
Game notes
Cavs rookie F Anthony Bennett, the No. 1 overall pick in this year's draft, missed all five shots from the field. He finished with two points and five rebounds in 15 minutes. .... While Kidd serves his suspension, assistant coach Joe Prunty is assuming head duties. ... Williams wasn't surprised by his limited minutes, but he did think he would play in the fourth. "It's tough to get into a rhythm when you're limited," he said. ... As punishment for failing to bring donuts to a recent practice, Bennett and Cleveland's other rookies were forced to wear brightly colored outfits to the arena. Bennett had to wear a purple fedora and vest. "You look like Cedric the Entertainer," Thompson told him. ... Nets F Andrei Kirilenko sat out with back spasms but could play in the home opener against Miami on Friday.
Regular Season Series
CLE leads 1-0
Game Information
- Referees:
- Zach Zarba
- Olandis Poole
- Ron Garretson
2023-24 Atlantic Standings
Team | W | L | PCT | GB | STRK |
Boston | 44 | 12 | .786 | - | W7 |
New York | 34 | 22 | .607 | 10 | W1 |
Philadelphia | 32 | 23 | .582 | 11.5 | L2 |
Brooklyn | 21 | 34 | .382 | 22.5 | L3 |
Toronto | 20 | 36 | .357 | 24 | W1 |


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The new pedal converts click track signals into a tap tempo signal
Spring Hill, TN (November 30, 2012) -- Visual sound has announced a new pedal tool that converts click track signals into a tap tempo signal that can be used with time-based effects. Here are the details from Visual Sound:
Visual Sound, a leading brand in the guitar pedal effects market, has released their latest, highly unique product: Time Bandit. Invented by the legendary R.G. Keen with Bob Weil, Time Bandit fills a void for guitarists who use Tap Delay and other time-based effects.
In the studio, the Visual Sound Time Bandit makes using time-based effects processors a piece of cake. That's because the Time Bandit is made to convert an incoming click track signal into a tap tempo signal that guitarists can plug directly into their time-based effects like delays, tremolos, and more. Simply connect a click track to the Time Bandit, then connect the output to your processor's Tap Tempo input, and it's ready to go. In summary, if someone is playing or recording to a click track, make the effect follow tempo automatically with the Visual Sound Time Bandit.
The Time Bandit can also act as a BPM (Beats Per Minute) generator. Just turn the large dial until the desired BPM is displayed in the bright LED window. The Time Bandit will send that tempo information to the delay pedal with no tapping required. This particular feature was requested of Visual Sound by the band, Paramore.
- Click track to tap tempo converter, to control time-based effects processors and pedals.
- 1/4" input for click track signal.
- 1/4" output to connect to effect's Tap Tempo input.
- Built-in BPM generator can send precise tempo without a click track input.
- Ideal for making effects follow tempo changes automatically.
Watch Visual Sound's video demo here:
For more information:
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Demi Lovato Cavorts at a Carnival in 'Made in the USA' Video
Demi Lovato makes her directorial debut with her new 'Made in the USA' clip. Kudos to the pop star for giving her Lovatics something seriously amazing!
If you think this is a video just about a couple that meets at a carnival and just has make out sessions in fields of wheat -- you couldn't be more wrong. These two lovebirds go through a narrative that is familiar to one too many couples in the U.S. and weather the storm together. The couple played by Aimee Teegarden ( you may recognize her as Julie Taylor from 'Friday Night Lights') and Dustin Milligan has some cray cray on-screen chemistry!
Added bonus: Demi Lovato looks absolutely stunning in the clip as well!


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